Friday, May 23, 2008

But before we all part ways for a long weekend of beer, burgers and general relaxation, I pass on an interesting YouTube video sent in by MZone reader RA. Since embedding was disabled, unfortunately I can only include the link below. But suffice it to say, you won't be disappointed.

I concur with Catie and did not understand the way of that video. But alas maybe we were not supposed to?? Anyway yes a happy weekend to all. I have not looked forward to a weekend like this in some time. As my family structure breaks down an my job is just an annoyance it will be a welcome break to actually have a weekend of plus 70 degree weather. My itinerary goes something like this. Sat: work all day in the big brown truck. Come home change breaks on a POS Jetta. Drink heavily. Sun golf and drink heavily at 630 in the morning. Come home continue to work on said POS Jetta. Continue to drink heavily. Monday morning wake up early drink coffee and smoke cigar on back porch while watching the insanely low C130 flyover my house. Dig some holes in yard to start my Government stimulus fence my dog received. Drink heavily. All the while trying not to kill my family or take my newborn daughter and flee to a Corona commercial.

If you're looking for some sports to enjoy this weekend, the NCAA lacrosse championship is fun to watch. The semifinals are Saturday at Noon (on ESPN2) and the final is on Memorial Day itself (on ESPN). I'm an active campaigner for the sport, which is growing much faster than any other, and I blog about it regularly on Facebook (I think next fall I'm gonna start a formal blog related to college lacrosse as well as football, basketball, and ice hockey). Lax is a Memorial Day tradition and I intend to preach the gospel.

Also, this weekend, there's this little game between a team in Michigan against some team from Pennsylvania, The Pittsburgh Crosby's or something like that. I know this a college football site, but I'm sure some of us are wings fans as well. Go Wings!

Also for great sports television this weekend the F1 race from Monaco is this Sunday on Speed. Qualifying is Saturday. For those of you video gamers this is the Cote D'Azur track on Gran Turismo. Amazing sites and so much money it's ridiculous.

Usually I actually GO to the lacrosse championship on Memorial Day weekend. Go to the beach? Barbecue? No, just lacrosse and Italian food. But I'm not going this year because it's in Foxboro, where there's NOTHING to do. It was in Philly two years ago and I went and had a blast.

My local high school just started a lacrosse club, and since part of my living is photographing high school sports here, I may have to start paying some attention to the sport. If I do add it to my workload, I'm looking forward to learning more about it; I got to watch it once on TV, and it looked like a sport I'd really enjoy being around, but this is really my first chance to really be around it regularly.

Actually, most northern lacrosse programs (Syracuse comes to mind) are very blue collar. I've seen many fans on IL rail on Princeton, Hopkins, Virginia, Duke, and UNC for being soccer momish wine and cheese programs (which is pretty much the case). And you'd be surprised at the amount of blue collar support for the sport.

Also, there's a part of me that thinks the wait for Michigan lacrosse will soon come to an end for several reasons:

1. The Big East is likely forming a men's lacrosse league in 2010, and Notre Dame will thus have to leave the GWLL, meaning that league will need a new team to make it keep its auto bid.

2. Michigan, who just won the club "National Championship" in lacrosse, was at a combine at Hopkins.

3. If Title IX is a concern, they can just add a women's team, too. And I know you guys like co-eds at this blog, and I must say that lacrosse women are way sexier than cheerleaders, particularly in the north.

I saw that score, heh. Congrats to Michigan softball. You know, I always found college softball more appealing than college baseball, heh. Congrats to Michigan on their win.

You should get into it, T9. You missed some VERY exciting games today. Syracuse erased a third quarter five goal deficit to win in double overtime, and Hopkins did what no one thought anyone could do: beat Duke.

I have a feeling that when lacrosse spreads outside the Northeast, it will begin to have a large following (in the Northeast there are a lot of people who follow it as vigorously as they follow football and basketball and in my case ice hockey as well; I try to follow all four sports if I can).

Well it's 5:30. Went to bed at 1am also. Not feeling so good but that's why I have a cooler full of beer and cigars to get me through the day's festivities. Leaving for golf in a minute but must stop at a local gas station and purchase one of their gallons of coffee. Enjoy day 2 of your weekend people. I hope to spend some time lying on the couch watching million dollar cars go way faster than any other car around a very small and tight track later. It's a shame they don't ever race in the US.

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